The ministry of reconciliation isn’t just something that we accept when we first believe. It is a lifestyle Christians need to be living 24/7.

I. INTRODUCTION
A. It seems Christians these days like a good book series
or plan of action from Christian authors.
1. I remember when everyone was experiencing God.
2. Then there was a period when people were afraid they
might get left behind, and grew
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Continuing series on biblical realstionships, their benefits and practical ways to reconcile broken relationships. 3rd in series or stand alone message.

Reconciling Relationships
Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Stir = with a view
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You may be here this morning feeling like your marriage has died and there is no point in going on. But remember: We serve a God who resurrected His dead Son from the grave, and who promises to make that same resurrection power available to those who tru

I was reading about a marriage counselor who was talking to a wife who was struggling with her husband. The counselor said, “Maybe your problem is that you’ve been waking up grumpy in the morning.” “No,” she said. “I always let him sleep.”
Problems wouldn’t come into married life if we would
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In this sermon I talk about our need for reconcilation with God and how God made that possible for us.

Reconcilable Differences
When you have a problem or disagreement with someone how do you normally respond? What do you do to try and make right a relationship gone badly? Do you use the Hatfield and McCoy method and duke it out until there’s only one person standing? Do you just let it go? Do
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In this sermon we will examine the reconciling work of God in the life of the believer and what He has called all of us to be.

Colossians 1
18And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things
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Text: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (v. 17).
How can a person become a new creation?
How do old things pass away?
What things become new?
The answers to these questions lie in the process of
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Describes the necessary steps to be a peacemaker as described in the beatitudes.

LEARNING TO BE A RECONCILER
REVISED MARCH 17, 2006
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RELATIONSHIPS.
I. RESOLVE TO FOLLOW CHRIST ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN SET IN THE BEATITUDES. Matthew 5:3-12
In humility recognize your spiritual bankruptcy. Mat 5:3; Rom 3:9-20.
Have remorse about your
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Reconciliation is needed because of sin. Reconciliation was accomplished at the Cross. Reconcilation will happen no matter what!

CHRIST THE RECONCILER
COLOSSIANS 1: 19-23
1. Illus. of couple
 Call them “Legion” for they are many.
 Happily married for many years, but then began to fuss and fight about little things.
 Soon were talking about divorce.
 Fortunately, this particular story
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A Christmas sermon asking whether the audience will take up God’s offer of reconciliation

There was once a woman who hated Christmas.Many years ago she’d fallen out with her daughter who had left slamming the door behind her and saying she wanted nothing more to do with her mother. The woman had never seen her since.
Every Christmas the woman nursed a secret hope that this would be
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The Colossians believers had become recipients of God’s marvelous act of reconciliation. They had been made acceptable to God and are challenged to continue striving forward in the truth that had saved them.

COLOSSIANS 1: 20-23
RECONCILED THROUGH CHRIST
Having proclaimed the deity and work of Christ, Paul now reveals what it means to the people in Colossae. He thus returns to the thought of redemption. With joyful wonder the Apostle testifies to the Colossians believers that they too have
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Last time we spoke of the role of forgiveness in reconciliation. We said that without forgiveness, reconciliation is not possible. For reconciliation results with the offended person forgives and the offending person repents.
Forgiveness + Repentance = Reconciliation
Our reconciliation with
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THERE IS NOTHING WORST THAN A FIGHT BETWEEN FAMILY MEMBERS. WITH GOD AS OUR GUIDE, THE FORGIVENESS THAT COMES FROM GRACE IS ALWAYS THE ONLY MEANS TO RECONCILATION.

The Reconciliation of Two Brothers
Text: Genesis, Chapters 28-33
Introduction.
I think the first lesson in life—for you, for me, and for everyone else—is to accept that we will not understand everything that happens in life.
In our 21st century minds, we think if we’re asked
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Find out if the people can give a good definition of the word reconciliation (To make friends with someone who you have been estranged or separated from; to harmonize people who have opposing viewpoints)

Hard Times
Lesson 33 – Joseph, He Brings Reconciliation to His Family – Gen. 43-50
Illustration:A childhood accident caused poet Elizabeth Barrett to lead a life of semi-invalidism before she married Robert Browning in 1846. There’s more to the story. In her youth, Elizabeth had been watched
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This sermon deals with reconciliation in terms of the truth that being really reconciled Reveals a problem, Restores a relationship and Relates to persons.

Randy felt like a vending machine. Anyone wanting something could pull an invisible lever and get it. On the job, at home, in church or during leisure time Randy was continually being called upon to carry other people’s responsibility. And Randy deeply resented those people who by demanding so
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